68 Phrenology. 
were also mine; and of this number were the late Dr. James 
Gregory, the late Dr. John Murray, and the late Dr. John Barelay.* 
Among these gentlemen—all of whom were very able in their 
respective departments, Dr. Barclay was particularly distinguished 
for his extraordinary talents and science ; and although he was 
only a private lecturer on anatomy, so highly was his course ap- 
preciated, that many students of the University, after paying for the 
ticket of the Professor, took also that of Dr. Barclay, and in great 
numbers crowded his anatomical theatre. Among many others, 
I was one of his attentive hearers. 
‘Dr. Barclay did not confine himself merely to the technical 
anatomy of the human frame: he was in the habit of illustrating 
the natural history of man, by comparing man with himself, and 
man also with the inferior animals, thus opening to us the rich 
field of comparative anatomy. Mr. Combe has mentioned that 
Dr. Barclay made it an important object to trace the progress of 
intelligence through the lower animals up to man, and through 
the principal families of the human race. Although, at that time, 
phrenology .was hardly known in Britain, even by name, Dr. 
Barclay was, perhaps unconsciously, einen the fundamen- 
tal principles of the science. 
have much pleasure in confirming the statement of Mr. 
Combe, having often seen Dr. Barclay’s tables covered with skulls, 
in a series, beginning with some of the less intelligent 
of the lower orders of animals and then ascending i in regular ow 
dation through the more intelligent, up to man. 
It was his great object to prove that the facial angle originally 
indicated by Camper, was the type of intelligence, it being larger 
as the head to which it belongs is more highly endowed with 
intellect. 
It will be remembered, that in man, the facial angle is included 
between two lines, one of which is drawn through the external 
opening of the ear, under the zygomatic arch and just beneath 
the cheek bone to the base of the nose, while the intersecting 
line passes along from the middle of the forehead over the innet 
* The painful word late I am happy to withhold from two of the eminent men to 
whom I then listened, Dr. Thomas Thomson, now the Regius Professor of Chemis- 
: ey in the ile tas Ss of Glasgow, and Dr. Thomas Hope, still the yeteran Professor of 
c 1e University of Edinburgh, both of whom happily survive in vigoF 
diet testitaees. Prof, Jameson and Sir David Brewster, whose orbs were then in 
the ascendant, are now stain stars of the first magnitude, 
